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Veteran actor Kamal Haasan on Wednesday launched his political party and the party Flag at Othakadai in Madurai among a sea of supporters. Haasan’s party is named Makkal Needhi Maiam which in Tamil means ‘Centre for People’s justice’.
Kamal Haasan hoisted and unveiled the party flag -three in red and three in white - joined together around a star on a white background.
Haasan was joined by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, AAP leader and former Delhi Minister Somnath Bharti who is the...

Weddings never fail in providing ladies with a chance to pamper themselves and get all decked up in pretty dresses to flaunt among their family and friends. With every girl going for dark colours lately, Bollywood beauties defied the trends and nailed white outfits at Mohit Marwah's wedding.
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If reports are to be believed, Censor Board has bleeped the "Glory to Hanuman!" statement uttered by Black Panther's rival M'Baku during his tribal pray. While the mention of an...

Out of 53,000 cyber attacks in India, 40% of them were focused on the financial sector in 2017. This statistic puts us in the seventh spot in the list of targeted countries in Web Application Attacks, according to a report from Akamai Technologies.
Phishing, website intrusions and defacements, virus and ransomware were some of the security incidents targeted the Banking, Financial services and Insurances (BFSI) sector in India.
Akamai Technologies, who made this report, claimed the key motive of...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina advised India not to worry about Dhaka’s growing ties with China. Interacting with a delegation of visiting Indian journalists at her official residence on Tuesday, she said Bangladesh's relations with Beijing are being extended only for the development of the country.
“I will rather suggest India should have good relations with its neighbours, including Bangladesh, so this region could be developed further and we can show the world that we all work together,”...

The Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, on Wednesday, said he expects the divestment process of public carrier Air India to be completed within a year. "We hope that by the end of the year we will be able to finish the divestments," the minister said, adding: "Government has given us Air India specific alternate mechanism (for disinvestment)... which is headed by the Finance Minister. I am also a member of it to guide the whole process." On February 2, Minister of State for Civil...

Dignity In Death? Or To Be Hanged Till Death...

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October 7 , 2017 , 16:24 IST

In a humanitarian step, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday finally took a step towards ending the medieval practice of hanging. The top court asked the central government to respond on a plea seeking execution of death sentence by hanging to be declared ultra vires of the Constitution.

Conscious of the fact the top court has upheld the death sentence by hanging, the Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud has asked to seek ways to end the medieval practice.

Arguing that the method used to end a human life was unconstitutional, painful, and not dignified, petitioner-lawyer Rishi Malhotra asked the court to declare Section 354 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)- execution by hanging, ultra vires of the Constitution.

Although this comes as a reassurance to the human right activists, the question rises why has the practice survived for so long in the world's largest democracy like India.

Many countries including Canada, Brazil, Chile and Kazakhstan have already abolished the medieval practice for ordinary crimes. However, India stands with the likes of Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Korea, Uganda, United Arab Emirates (UAE), who still practice the death penalty by hanging.

While many developed countries do have death sentence and execute prisoners, several others have abolished the practice entirely. even though, the countries that do carry out execution use more modern and dignified ways to end a person's life.

Even the US uses the modern methods like Lethal injections and gas chambers to execute prisoners.

Just in 2014, the latest available data, at least 477 convicts were hanging on the death row. According to official statistics, the courts in the country, between 2001 and 2011, gave out an average of 132 death sentences.

Although, the Supreme Court just confirms only 3 to 4 of those death sentences, the existence of the practice at all is shameful.